JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Penyanyi dan penulis lagu asal Kanada, Joni Mitchell, memopulerkan lagu berjudul “Off Night Backstreet”.
Lagu bergenre folk tersebut dirilis pada 1977 melalui label rekaman Asylum Records.
“Off Night Backstreet” muncul dalam album studionya yang bertajuk Don Juan Reckless Daughter.
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Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu “Off Night Backstreet” dari Joni Mitchell:
[Intro]
Cm F7
Cm F7
Cm F7
[Verse 1]
Cm7 Cm
Maybe I'm just kidding myself when I say I love you
G/B
I don't know
Bbsus4
Loving without trusting
Cm F7
You get frostbite and sunstroke
Bbsus2
I wish I felt nothing
Fm Cmaj7 Bbsus4
You pimp - laughing and strutting her to my chartered seat
Cm F7
Your old off night back street
[Interlude]
Cm F7
Cm F7
[Verse 2]
Cm7
It's been stinger to stinger darling
Cm G/B
It's been heart to heart
Bbsus4
You still keep me from finishing
Cm F7
Any new love I start
Bbsus2
Now she's moved in with you
Fm Cmaj7
She's keeping your house neat
Bbsus4
And your sheets sweet
Cm F7
And I'm your off night back street
[Interlude]
Cm F7
Cm F7
[Bridge]
Cm G/B F
I can feel your fingers
Bbsus4
Feeling my face
Fm Cmaj7
There are some lines you put there
Bbsus2
And some you erase
[Verse 3]
Cm7
Maybe I'm just dramatizing
Cm G/B
I don't care
Bbsus4
It's home it can be heaven
Cm F7
When we play fair
Bbsus2
But these sentimental journeys
Fm
Late at night
Cmaj7 Bbsus4
High in some back room you're calling me
Cm F7
To be your off night back street
[Interlude]
Cm F7
Cm F7
[Bridge]
Cm G/B
You give me such pleasure
F Bbsus4
You bring me such pain
Fm Cmaj7
Who left her long black hair
Bbsus2
In our bathtub drain?
[Outro]
Cm F7
Cm F7
Cm F7
Cm F7
Cm F7